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25.9. Waiting a Little While: sleep

Figure Go to http://examples.oreilly.com/upt3 for more information on: sleep

The sleep command waits. That's all it does. (GNU versions are usually loaded with features, but the sleep on the CD-ROM [see http://examples.oreilly.com/upt3] doesn't do more than the standard version.) So what good is it?

-- JP



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